PDF format guides

[Paul W. Frields]

On Thu, 2007-03-01 at 20:46 +0300, John Babich wrote:
> FDP Team:
> PDF creation is a great idea.
> 
> I brought it up in the past, and, until we get it automated
> in the toolchain, I'm glad to produce PDFs via cups-PDF
> and upload them and link them to the page.
> 
> By simply changing settings using "File > Page Setup" in
> Firefox, you can produce pretty clean PDFs.
> 
> Also, using explicit link references in a wiki page also
> makes it easier. (I need to change a few pages I worked on
> to follow this existing guideline).
> 
> This method, although off-line, is clean and simple.
> 
> I also created single-page views and encourage it to be
> adopted as a standard for multi-page docs in the wiki.
> 
> This makes the PDF creation very straightforward.

This might be preferable to the htmldoc method, which is automatable but
*extremely* ugly.  Lots of intrusive hi-ASCII characters in headings,
for one thing.  If anyone can help fix that, great.

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